CVE-2018-0492
Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 1.6%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
Johnathan Nightingale beep through 1.3.4, if setuid, has a race condition that allows local privilege escalation.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.0 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.56% probability · 75th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 6 April 2018
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Affected
- beep project/beep · debian/debian linux
- Source
- security@debian.org
EPSS 1.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00089.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0492Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4163Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44452/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2018/msg00089.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0492Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-15Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4163Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44452/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.